Cook County
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DNA test results delay Mount Prospect murder caseNov 20, 2011 11:00 pm - A delay in getting DNA test results from a bloody knife and another item found at the crime scene are holding up court proceedings in the July 2010 murder case of Jean W...
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Nine years for arson in Elgin, threatening girlfriendNov 20, 2011 11:00 pm - Last June, James R. Beavers was acquitted of charges that he intentionally set fire to his parents' Elgin home in November 2009 while his then 2-year-old son was inside ...
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Weekend in review: Antioch High coach's wife altered grades?Nov 20, 2011 10:00 pm - Antioch football coach's wife charged with altering grades Antioch High School varsity football coach Brian Glashagel said he was “blindsided” when he was told last...
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Arlington Heights man accused in burglariesNov 20, 2011 10:00 pm - A 41-year-old Arlington Heights man is being held on multiple counts of residential burglary after robbing multiple homes in the Terramere subdivision, police said. In ...
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Geneva woman has been to 100 funerals for heroin victimsNov 20, 2011 4:30 am - Lea Minalga didn't know Paul Grogan, the 26-year-old Glendale Heights man who died of a heroin overdose last week, but she went to his wake anyway. In the past 10 years...
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We must sift out the junk for the mindNov 20, 2011 4:06 am - May I say thank heaven for Lauren DeJesu (“Can’t TV be more creative, less vulgar?” Fence Post, Nov. 8). She has expressed my sentiments to perfection and more beautiful...
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Let Christmas be celebrated freelyNov 20, 2011 4:06 am - I’ve had it with the bashing of Christmas by a small group who have nothing better to do. Now they’re calling a Christmas tree (not Xmas) a holiday tree. The calendars s...
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Entitled to socialism?Nov 20, 2011 4:06 am - I would like to thank Mary Lou Hoeltje for her Oct. 30 letter to Fence Post in which she expressed her discomfort with Barack Obama being in the White House “because his...
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Faiths come together for annual Thanksgiving celebrationNov 19, 2011 11:00 pm - The stage was set at Buffalo Grove's St. Mary Parish Sunday when the community's Jewish and Christian leaders walked together toward their seats, some covered with yarmu...
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2nd person found hanging in Chicago-area jailNov 19, 2011 11:00 pm - A man has been found hanging in a Chicago-area jail — the second person in four days to die that way at the Calumet Area lockup. Police told the Chicago Tribune a jailer...